What a glorious creature was he who first discovered the use of tobacco!the industrious retires from businessthe voluptuous from pleasurethe lover from a cruel mistressthe husband from a cursed wifeand I from all the world to my pipe. Fielding.The Grub Street Opera, Act III. Scene 1.

Sublime tobacco! which, from east to west,Cheers the tars labour or the Turkmans rest;Which on the Moslems ottoman dividesHis hours, and rivals opium and his brides;Magnificent in Stamboul, but less grand,Though not less loved, in Wapping or the Strand:Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipeWhen tippd with amber, mellow, rich and ripe;Like other charmers, wooing the caress,More dazzlingly when daring in full dress;Yet thy true lovers more admire by farThy naked beautiesgive me a cigar! Byron.The Island, Canto II. Stanza 19.

A good vomit, I confess, a virtuous herb if it be well qualified, opportunely taken, and medicinally used; but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health, hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul. Burton.Anat. of Melancholy, Part II. Sect. IV. Memb. 2. Subs. 1.

Among other regulations it would be very convenient to prevent the excess of drinking; with that scurvy custom among the lads, and parent of the former vice, the taking of tobacco where it is not absolutely necessary in point of health. Swift.On the advancement of Religion. (Roscoes Ed. of his Life, Page 277.)